Portfolio-stand



B'. P@ s1f1ILLABBR` Portfolio-Stand.`

No. 225,171. Patented man 2, 1880,

METERS, FHOm-LHHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D` C.

UNITED STATES PATENT. UFFICE,

BENJAMIN P. SHILLABER, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECILFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 225,171, dated March 2, 1880.

Application filed November 6, 1879.

To all whom t may concern Be itknown that I, BENJAMLN P. SHILLA- BER, of Chelsea, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portfolio-Stands; and l do hereby declare the .same to be described in the following' specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a side view, and Fig. 3 a rear elevation, of it.

It consists of a sustaining-frame, A, a tablet, B, and two leaves, C C, arranged andcombined and provided with pivoted sustainingbars D D E E, substantially as hereinafter describedthat is to say, the sustaining-frame A, as shown, is composed of two standards, a a, and a series of connecting bars or rounds, b b Z1, all being arranged as represented.

The tablet B is hinged or pivoted, near its upper part, to the frame A, and-at its lower end is provided with a ledge, c, projeetin g from it, as shown.

To the tablet, at its two opposite edges, the two leaves C C are respectively hinged, so as to be capable of being turned up into one `plane with the tablet, or, when it is down to its lowest position, of being turned into right.

struts back within the frame A the tablet may be lowered so as to rest against the front edges of the standards.

To the rear side ofthe tablet long turn-buttons orbars E E are pivoted, they, when turned so as to project beyond the outer edges of the tablet, serving to hold the two leaves in the plane of the tablet, in order that they, (the said leaves) with the tablet, may be used to ad vantage in sustaining a portfolio when open and resting upon them.

When the` parts of the portiblio-stand ar folded together the tablet and its leaves rest against the standards in a manner to cause the whole article to conveniently pack in a small compass in comparison to what it may occupy when 'unfolded for use.

lf desirable,.the tablet maybe pivoted at or near its middle to the stand; but it is prefer able, generally speaking, to have it pivoted near its upper part thereto.

I claim- The portfolio-stand hereinbefore described, composed of the sustaining-frame A, inclined on its front side and provided with the pivoted struts D and tablet B, having at its sides hinged leaves C and pivoted bars E, the tablet being pivoted to the upper part of the frame, so that it may be supported onI the struts D or be folded down against the front of the frame, with leaves folding against the sides thereof, all as described.

' BENJAMlN P. SHVILLABER.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, W. W; LUNT. 

